Not since the Magna Carte being first penned beside the Thames, has man actually realised how little civilized society actually understands about rules, or to better phrase it has one man realised how little he knows about the laws of a game.
So why in rugby is it laws and not rules, and why if Rugby was invented in England, i.e. Rugby is it currently being run by the IRB from Dublin. Some of the best things in life are simply unexplainable. Who could have imagined that one of the finest things ever to come out of England, it was decided to let the Irish look after.
To begin to explain how and why certain decisions are made on a rugby pitch to an alien of the game, is like explaining why the Italians have style. Sometimes we just have to accept that they have both come about over a period of time for reasons that we can’t fathom.
Upon downloading the rulebook for rugby, sorry laws. It appears that somewhere in the 182 page document I may learn why decisions by referees are made. On first appearances, the referees signal section looks like some Village People choreographed dance. Who would have thought that a referee had 46 separate hand signals. Sir Francis Drake probably used less for the entire Spanish Armada, (that is probably because he was tending to his dysentery).
So after finally getting to grips with the 182 pages, I may hopefully finally understand that the referee is not just blowing his whistle and waving his arms around, because he has small man syndrome and wants attention.
It probably also won’t cover such topics as :
- Why footballers look like they have been shot when the invisible man tackles them?
- Why footballers have conferences with the ref?
- Why New Zealand always enter as favourites to a World Cup?
- Is Sebastien Chabal a Neanderthal and does he live in a cave?
God bless Webb Ellis for being a petulant schoolboy who took a huff and sat on a ball until his friends played by his rules – sorry laws!
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